If tears could build a stairway

If tears could build a stairway,
And memories were a lane,
I would walk right up to heaven,
To bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say goodbye.
You were gone before I knew it,
And only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness
And secret tears still flow,
What it meant to lose you,
No one will ever know.
Unknown

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting beside you and know you can’t have them. ~ Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equal’s nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughin

If even a day should go by when I don’t say I love you, may never a moment go by without you knowing that I do. ~ Unknown

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. ~ Unknown

To the world you may be only one person,
But to one person you may be the world.
Unknown

Love is like a butterfly; chase it, it will run away; pay no attention to it and it will sit softly on your shoulder. ~ Unknown

Never frown when you are sad, because you never know who loves you for your smile. ~ Justine Milton

Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presences that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely, remember this is true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you. ~ Unknown

You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if your not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng

If loving you is wrong, then I don’t want to be right and if living without you is right, then I want to be wrong for the rest of our lives. ~ Unknown

You are but an angel and I a mere mortal. We are worlds apart. I must love you for a distance. ~ Unknown

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then but the strings remain forever. ~ June Masters Bacher

I dropped a tear in the ocean. Whenever they find it, I will stop loving you. ~ Unknown

How do you heal a broken heart? I have no idea where to start. Because everything I do, just reminds me of you. ~ Unknown

Let not our love be like a flower that dies. Instead let it be like a river that flows forever. ~ Unknown

I wish that when I gave someone my heart, I could see whether or not they kept it or threw it away. ~ Unknown

No matter how badly your heart is broken, the world does not stop for your grief. ~ Anonymous

Even if love is full of thorns, I’d still embrace it for I know that in between their thorns, there is a rose worth all the pain. ~ Unknown

If you love someone draw a circle around their name, because a heart can break into little pieces, but a circle goes on and on. ~ Unknown

True love is not two souls coming together, but one soul finally finding it’s other half. ~ Unknown

If you want him to fall head over heals, give him something to trip over. ~ Unknown

No matter how painful your past love life is, be brave and smile, look forward to tomorrow, someone is out there waiting for you. ~ Unknown

My wish is not to mean everything to everyone, but to mean something to someone. ~ Unknown

I wrote a Good Omelet by Nikki Giovanni
I wrote a good omelet and ate a hot poem
After loving you
Buttoned my car and drove my coat home in the rain
After loving you
I goed on red and stopped on green
Floating somewhere in between
Being here and being there
After loving you
I rolled my bed, turned down my hair
Slightly confused but I didn’t care
Laid out my teeth and gargled my gown
Then I stood and laid me down to sleep
After loving you

Loving someone who doesn’t love you back, it’s like reaching for a star, you know you’ll never make it but you keep trying. ~ Unknown

Sometimes making the people we love suffer is the only way to remind them that we exist. ~ Unknown

Love is like a box of chocolates. You don’t know how good it is till they are all gone. ~ Unknown

When the one you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. ~ Unknown

Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,
you can never tell. ~ Joan Crawford

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be
the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
Emmet Fox

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. ~ George Elliot

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question ? ~ Lily Tomlin.

One good thing about internet dating: you're guaranteed to click with whomever you meet. ~ Mongo.

I wish I was a kid again, skinned knees are easier to deal with then a broken heart. ~ Unknown

Never say I love you, if you do not care, never talk about feelings if they aren't really there, never hold my hand if you are going to break my heart, never look into my eyes if all you do is lie, never say hello if you really mean good-bye. ~ Unknown

I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you. ~ Unknown

Sometimes, someone says something really small, and it fits right into this empty place into your heart, and you can feel it settling in there, maybe even for the rest of your life. ~ Angela Chase

True Love? I use to believe it existed, but once you've had your heart torn out and thrown on the floor, you just don't care anymore. ~ Unknown

I've tried to block your memory, To protect me from the pain, Pretend I never knew you, And never heard your name. But the walls aren't strong enough And I fight my tears in vain. The feeling came creeping through and the hurt is still the same. I wish I could forget you, Or make you see me now. I thought you really cared, but it seems you don't know how. The pain will ease in time, and though I know it's over and what we had is gone, the memories will live forever in a corner of my mind. ~ Unknown

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ~ Unknown

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ~ Unknown

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longing, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ~ Unknown

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ~ Baz Luhrmann

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ~ Unknown

I miss you when something really good happens, because you're the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you're the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry, because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you most when I lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other for those were troubling me, because you're the one who understands me so well. ~ Unknown

You know somebody, and they cry for you. They stay awake at night and dream of you. I bet you never even know they do, but somebody's crying for you. ~ Unknown

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem? ~ Rodgers & Hammerstien, Lyrics from Cinderella

If only there was someplace we could go to get a broken heart repaired, I mean if the microwave or TV or even the toaster breaks you can take it to the repair place. So why can't broken hearts go to some place like that? ~ Unknown

Your heart decides who it likes and who it doesn't. You can't tell your heart what to do. It does it on its own when you least suspect it, or even if you don't want it to. It loves who it wants to love, and there's nothing you can do about it. ~ Unknown.

Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them. If you do they might break your heart but if you don't you might break theirs ~ Unknown

I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, and I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do, I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you. ~ Unknown

True love? I used to believe it existed, but once you've had your heart torn out and thrown on the floor, you just don't care anymore. ~ Unknown

Sometimes making the people we love suffer is the only way to remind them that we exist. ~ Unknown

You always lose the ones who really love you because you're too blind to see how truly great they treat you. ~ Unknown.

Whoever said that there are plenty of fishes in the sea was lying, sometimes there's only one fish, trust me. ~ Ally McBeal

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for it. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. ~ Unknown

Love is not written on paper for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. ~ Unknown

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people, they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things that you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart. ~ Unknown

The worst thing you can do for love is deny it, so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything get in your way. ~ Unknown

Love doesn't end with dying
Or leave with the last breath.
For someone you've loved deeply,
Love doesn't end with death.
John Addey

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. ~ Joan Crawford

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. ~ Sir James M. Barrie

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ~ Mary Manin Morrissey

The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Nat King Cole

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather (1876-1947)

Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts. ~ Beatrice Saunders

Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care. ~ Carl S. Avery

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ Mother Teresa

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it. ~ Margaret Kennedy

Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns. The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns, while enjoying the roses. ~ Lillian Carol Russell

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ~ John Lennon

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. ~ Robert Fulghum

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... ~ Emmet Fox

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~ James Baldwin

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes.just be an illusion. ~ Javan

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ~ Jule Renard

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ~ Unknown

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone. ~ Fred Small Everything Possible

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. ~ Rob Cella

The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else. ~ Unknown

I have never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love-plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing-turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, could not use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. ~ Elizabeth McCracken

Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge. ~ Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ~ Matt Groening

Sometimes it hurt more then we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace.. but we would be hollow.. Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead. ~ David Boreanaz in Passion Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I don't know what you are talking about and i don't care. I'm talking about watching my lover die. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar in Graduation Day Part 2 Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza. ~ Alf Whit

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~ Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)